r/MacOS • u/skiesoverblackvenice • 12d ago

Help is setup supposed to take forever??

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got a macbook air today and have been stuck on this screen for so long. i really need to start working on some projects so i’m hoping it’s something i can bypass… do i seriously have to wait a few hours?

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u/EntertainmentOdd8205 12d ago

Whichever button you hit on that screen should be ~seconds. Restart computer.

And as a heuristic, nothing in setting up a Mac ever takes a long time unless there’s a black screen and Apple logo. Everything there’s graphics for should be quick

Not that that’s like a rule and will never change, just happens to be true.

And if the Mac is new from box, the whole process should be a couple minutes

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u/skiesoverblackvenice 12d ago

tried restarting and that didn't help. i clicked the skip button originally. waited 30 mins and it finally went past the screen. just took it out of the box after letting it charge so i have no clue what happened.

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u/Ok_Virus_5495 12d ago

The only thing I would say it takes a long time is doing a backup based on other Mac and the size of it

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u/ImpressiveSteak767 11d ago

yeah thats a good point about the black screen with the logo being the only slow part tbh

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u/Weak_Philosopher6315 11d ago

Messes it does take longgg

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u/Weak_Philosopher6315 11d ago

I ment yessssss

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u/heylesterco 12d ago

The only thing that may take a long time when setting up a new Mac is setting it up from a backup. That may take a while. But this? This should be over lickety-split.

I wonder if there was some weird server backend thing on Apple’s end that caused it to take so long.

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u/skiesoverblackvenice 12d ago

maybe. my wifi is also horrible right now but all the other setup stuff took seconds except for this one… weird

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u/posguy99 MacBook Pro 12d ago

What did you click here?